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Poor health for low-income citizens
A recent stiuly showed that 54.1 percent of adults in South Los Angeles have health problems.
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Wnter
Residents of poor areas in Los Angeles County have worse health than more affluent communities, according to a report examining the chronic conditions of Californians published in December 2005 through UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research and funded by a grant through the California Healthcare Foundation. “UCLA Center for Health Policy
Research finds that residents in West Los Angeles County are generally healthier and have better access to care than residents in the county's south and east (areas),” according to supplements provided with the center’s report.
The report shows that 54.1 percent of adults in south Los Angeles County experience one or more chronic health conditions, compared to only 40.9 percent in West Los Angeles.
The findings were based on responses found in the California Health Interview Survey, which was collected via random telephone interviews in 2001 and again in 2003.
A person defined as low-income means they had a family household income of less
than $30,040 for a family of three in 2002.
The results are more staggering when one examines specific conditions, such as asthma.
It was reported that 30 percent of the more than 3 million adults ever diagnosed with asthma were below the poverty line. In South Los Angeles, 54.6 percent of the total
57,000 adults diagnosed with asthma were classified as low-income.
Los Angeles’ young people constituted 71.9 percent of statewide cases involving asthmatic children from low-income families between 2001 and 2003, according to the UCLA report.
In addition, in 2001 and 2003 combined, black adults living in Los Angeles County had a higher percentage of asthma than those living elsewhere in the state. The same was true for Hispanic adults.
A similar air quality report was released in late September 2005 by USC's Keck School of Medicine. In this report, however, researchers looked specifically at possible links between childhood asthma sufferers and traffic-related pollution.
The $10 million study began in 1993 and focused on 208 children; by last year it became the longest investigation into the correlation between toxins and children’s health, according to a release from USC. The medical |oumal. Epidemiology, printed the report in its November 2005 issue.
The research found that 31 of the kids, or 15 percent had asthma. The scientists were able to link the causes and effects of toxins by placing air samplers outside of homes to measure nitrogen dioxide, which is a known traffic-related pollutant, the report stated.
Scientists also measured how many vehicles traveled within 164 yards of the child's home
I « e Pollution ;>age •
Traffic congMtion. a study released in 2005 by the USC Keck School of Medicine found that 15 percent of children had asthma caused by traffic related pollution.
WEATHER
Today: Morning drizzle. High 60. low 41. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny.
www.dailytrojan.com
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February 15, 2006
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Candidate receives 3 complaints
By BETH PALKOVIC
Contributing Writer
The commission will hear an additional complaint against the Gordon-Chaudry ticket at another meeting tonight.
By ADRIAN FL0RID0 and JOANNA UN
Staff Writers
The Student Senate Elections Commission met last night to hear three complaints filed against Sam Gordon and Sahil Chaudry, the presidential-vice presidential ticket
The commission heard arguments for only two of the complaints by press time. The commission will release its verdicts on all three complaints by tomorrow night.
In one complaint, Robert Tenney, a volunteer for the Gary Lee-Andrea Schwartz campaign, charges the Gordon-Chaudry ticket with multiple violations of the Elections Code, Senate bylaws and USC Code of Ethics. The commission had not heard this complaint by press time.
The complaint accuses the ticket of posting a sign reading “Don’t" above a large composite of signs Lee and Tenney made that reads, "Vote Gary Lee." The signs are displayed in Lee-Schwartz volunteers' dormitory windows in Birnkrant Residential College.
Lee said his sign was approved by the Elections Commission.
Elizabeth Stinnett a witness in the complaint and a lee-Schwartz volunteer, said that while Lee and Tenney were putting up the signs, a student wearing a Gordon-Chaudry campaign T-shirt “saw the signs and quickly got out his cell phone."
"Soon, (Gordon) showed up and quickly made phone calls and entered the building, using his own card (and) with no Birnkrant resident accompanying him." Stinnett's account reads.
Gordon is a residential adviser in Trov Apartments and has access to other residential buildings.
“We have more than one witness of (Gordon and Chaudry) in and outside Birnkrant between the hours of 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday,” the account reads.
By 7 a.m., Lee-Schwartz volunteer Hannah Fettmg called Lee to inform him that “Don't" had been placed above the Lee-Schwartz sign, and between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Stinnett and Schwartz photographed the Birnkrant facade with the "Don't" sign intact.
The “Don't" sign is displayed in the sixth-fkxir room of Andrew Samel, a Gordon-Chaudry volunteer.
Tenney’s complaint reads that because Samel is a volunteer of the Gordon-Chaudry campaign, he "should be held to the same Elections Code and Code of Ethics as the candidates themselves."
The sign was not approved by the Elections Commission and does not display the required “Vote On!” logo, the complaint read.
The Senate Code of Ethics also requires candidates to temporarily disaffiliate from any organization or decisionmaking process “that might affect the elections" dunng
set Senate, page 10 I
INDEX
Michelle Kwan is a role model for all with her gracious withdrawal. 4
David Rees, a political comic artist, speaks on campus. 7
News Digest 2 LifestyV_________1
I'profiling___ 2 (.lauitifds — 12
Opinions......4 Sports 19
Wondering what is the truth behind 'The Da Vinci Code"? Believe in the scientific validity of evolution and naturalism? What about truth
itself?
These issues and more will be explored this week in a series of lectures in the third annual Veritas Forum at USC. It is a three-day event, which started Tuesday with a magic show and will end with a presentation arguing against the theories of evolution and naturalism.
The forum is sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ, Christian
I see Veritas, page 3 l
Going wild. Jim Monroe performs at Bovard Auditorium in "A Revelation of Truth through the Art of Deception” Tuesday. The event was part of the Veritas Forum, a three-day event.

Poor health for low-income citizens
A recent stiuly showed that 54.1 percent of adults in South Los Angeles have health problems.
By BONNIE SCHINDLER
Staff Wnter
Residents of poor areas in Los Angeles County have worse health than more affluent communities, according to a report examining the chronic conditions of Californians published in December 2005 through UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research and funded by a grant through the California Healthcare Foundation. “UCLA Center for Health Policy
Research finds that residents in West Los Angeles County are generally healthier and have better access to care than residents in the county's south and east (areas),” according to supplements provided with the center’s report.
The report shows that 54.1 percent of adults in south Los Angeles County experience one or more chronic health conditions, compared to only 40.9 percent in West Los Angeles.
The findings were based on responses found in the California Health Interview Survey, which was collected via random telephone interviews in 2001 and again in 2003.
A person defined as low-income means they had a family household income of less
than $30,040 for a family of three in 2002.
The results are more staggering when one examines specific conditions, such as asthma.
It was reported that 30 percent of the more than 3 million adults ever diagnosed with asthma were below the poverty line. In South Los Angeles, 54.6 percent of the total
57,000 adults diagnosed with asthma were classified as low-income.
Los Angeles’ young people constituted 71.9 percent of statewide cases involving asthmatic children from low-income families between 2001 and 2003, according to the UCLA report.
In addition, in 2001 and 2003 combined, black adults living in Los Angeles County had a higher percentage of asthma than those living elsewhere in the state. The same was true for Hispanic adults.
A similar air quality report was released in late September 2005 by USC's Keck School of Medicine. In this report, however, researchers looked specifically at possible links between childhood asthma sufferers and traffic-related pollution.
The $10 million study began in 1993 and focused on 208 children; by last year it became the longest investigation into the correlation between toxins and children’s health, according to a release from USC. The medical |oumal. Epidemiology, printed the report in its November 2005 issue.
The research found that 31 of the kids, or 15 percent had asthma. The scientists were able to link the causes and effects of toxins by placing air samplers outside of homes to measure nitrogen dioxide, which is a known traffic-related pollutant, the report stated.
Scientists also measured how many vehicles traveled within 164 yards of the child's home
I « e Pollution ;>age •
Traffic congMtion. a study released in 2005 by the USC Keck School of Medicine found that 15 percent of children had asthma caused by traffic related pollution.
WEATHER
Today: Morning drizzle. High 60. low 41. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny.
www.dailytrojan.com
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912
February 15, 2006
Veritas
Forum
searches
for truth
Christian groups at USC explore issues of faith in modern-day concerns at the third annual event.
Candidate receives 3 complaints
By BETH PALKOVIC
Contributing Writer
The commission will hear an additional complaint against the Gordon-Chaudry ticket at another meeting tonight.
By ADRIAN FL0RID0 and JOANNA UN
Staff Writers
The Student Senate Elections Commission met last night to hear three complaints filed against Sam Gordon and Sahil Chaudry, the presidential-vice presidential ticket
The commission heard arguments for only two of the complaints by press time. The commission will release its verdicts on all three complaints by tomorrow night.
In one complaint, Robert Tenney, a volunteer for the Gary Lee-Andrea Schwartz campaign, charges the Gordon-Chaudry ticket with multiple violations of the Elections Code, Senate bylaws and USC Code of Ethics. The commission had not heard this complaint by press time.
The complaint accuses the ticket of posting a sign reading “Don’t" above a large composite of signs Lee and Tenney made that reads, "Vote Gary Lee." The signs are displayed in Lee-Schwartz volunteers' dormitory windows in Birnkrant Residential College.
Lee said his sign was approved by the Elections Commission.
Elizabeth Stinnett a witness in the complaint and a lee-Schwartz volunteer, said that while Lee and Tenney were putting up the signs, a student wearing a Gordon-Chaudry campaign T-shirt “saw the signs and quickly got out his cell phone."
"Soon, (Gordon) showed up and quickly made phone calls and entered the building, using his own card (and) with no Birnkrant resident accompanying him." Stinnett's account reads.
Gordon is a residential adviser in Trov Apartments and has access to other residential buildings.
“We have more than one witness of (Gordon and Chaudry) in and outside Birnkrant between the hours of 12 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday,” the account reads.
By 7 a.m., Lee-Schwartz volunteer Hannah Fettmg called Lee to inform him that “Don't" had been placed above the Lee-Schwartz sign, and between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., Stinnett and Schwartz photographed the Birnkrant facade with the "Don't" sign intact.
The “Don't" sign is displayed in the sixth-fkxir room of Andrew Samel, a Gordon-Chaudry volunteer.
Tenney’s complaint reads that because Samel is a volunteer of the Gordon-Chaudry campaign, he "should be held to the same Elections Code and Code of Ethics as the candidates themselves."
The sign was not approved by the Elections Commission and does not display the required “Vote On!” logo, the complaint read.
The Senate Code of Ethics also requires candidates to temporarily disaffiliate from any organization or decisionmaking process “that might affect the elections" dunng
set Senate, page 10 I
INDEX
Michelle Kwan is a role model for all with her gracious withdrawal. 4
David Rees, a political comic artist, speaks on campus. 7
News Digest 2 LifestyV_________1
I'profiling___ 2 (.lauitifds — 12
Opinions......4 Sports 19
Wondering what is the truth behind 'The Da Vinci Code"? Believe in the scientific validity of evolution and naturalism? What about truth
itself?
These issues and more will be explored this week in a series of lectures in the third annual Veritas Forum at USC. It is a three-day event, which started Tuesday with a magic show and will end with a presentation arguing against the theories of evolution and naturalism.
The forum is sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ, Christian
I see Veritas, page 3 l
Going wild. Jim Monroe performs at Bovard Auditorium in "A Revelation of Truth through the Art of Deception” Tuesday. The event was part of the Veritas Forum, a three-day event.